Recovery of Iron Values from Waste Manganiferous Iron Ore Fines for Pellet Making

Manik Chand  Goswami; Manoj Kumar  Mohanta; Shobhana  Dey; Santosh  Pani

doi:10.4236/jmmce.2014.25052

Shobhana Dey¹^*, Manoj Kumar Mohanta¹, Manik Chand Goswami¹, Santosh Pani²

Abstract: A large volume of overburden and mine wastes is generated during the extraction and beneficiation of the low grade ores. The waste low grade manganiferous iron ore fine from southern part of India was studied for recovery of iron values. The chemical assay of the sample is 52.36% Fe, 4.75% Mn, 8.5% SiO2 and 2.82% Al2O3. The characterization study of the sample indicates the presence of microplaty hematite, goethite, pyrolusite, cryptomelane with minor amount of quartz and kaolinite. The beneficiation study of the sample does not respond to the conventional route of desliming the ground feed followed by gravity separation and magnetic separation. Therefore, an alternative technique of reduction roasting using a producer gas was attempted at different conditions. The characterization of roasted product reveals the phase transformation to magnetite and microplaty magnetite. The low intensity magnetic separation conducted with the roasted products generated at optimal condition shows that 70% concentrate having 64.5% Fe and 1.87% Mn could be produced. The high manganese in the concentrate works as an additive for making pellet with enhancement in pellet strength and drop in reducibility. Utilization of mines waste has significant impact on mineral resources and environmental hazard.

Keywords: Recovery of Resource, Mine Waste, Overburden, Manganiferous Iron Ore, Reduction Roasting

Cite this paper: Dey, S. , Mohanta, M. , Goswami, M. and Pani, S. (2014) Recovery of Iron Values from Waste Manganiferous Iron Ore Fines for Pellet Making. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 2, 513-521. doi: 10.4236/jmmce.2014.25052.

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